Kaukaa

Today I composed a song called Kaukaa (= Far away). I wrote the lyrics, too. And I recorded the whole - some fourteen tracks running for four minutes. Actually only Sini's singing is missing - and then mixing... But that's for another day.

What's the purpose of writing Music - or creating any other object of artistic endeavor? Is it to make one's life more worthy to live? Is it merely for fun and entertainment? Is it some sort of a way of seeking the truth - a different truth when compared to scientific achievements? Is Art in essence something that science can't really grasp with its not-so-sophisticated or not-enough-sophisticated methods and equipment?

Well, well. Art - and thus Music - is different from Science - and Religion. Can it be as follows?

Science tries to find facts and truths - structures within our Universe... Sometimes it succeeds, sometimes it fails - and after a failure it tries to correct itself. It slowly circles around the answers - seeing the truth from different angles and maybe sometime getting closer...

Art - actually mostly artists - try to create something never before seen, heard or felt and there can be something truthful involved...Is art always so that it can be experienced only on a personal level - so that artistic truth is always happening within?

Religion(s) claim to have found the truth and answers to quite everything. But have they really found something? Believers try to convert other people to accept - or even to submit to the views of their chosen religion. Different religions claim the truth being seen or hidden within widely varied thoughts and things... Are there some Universal Truths?

Three great achievements of mankind. And not so thorough analysis. Just some thoughts.

Juha H.